By the time Earl was ready to train me to take over his shop, he was too old to do it the right way. Earl was never good with knowing how long things took, and for some reason he thought that my training could wait until a few weeks before his 70th birthday. At this […]

I was playing Red Light Green Light in my backyard the other night, and one of my kids tripped over something buried in the dirt. It was a little piece of iron bar jutting an inch through the soil. I guess all the heavy rains we have gotten recently leached away some of the topsoil, […]

The first time I was able to buy a product and “flip” it for a profit was an old porcelain doll. I found it at a local yard sale, cleaned it up, and posted it on Ebay. That doll cost me two bucks, and I sold it for forty! After that I was hooked, and […]

My buddy Gus and I have been haunting the local junkyard and scrap yard for the last few years. I am in construction, and he rebuilds old cars, so we are both constantly searching for old parts we can reuse. They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and I can tell you that […]